Research Interests

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Human Evolution, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. My research focuses on the postcranial morphology of extant apes and fossil hominins to reconstruct the locomotor and tool-use behaviour of early hominins. I am primarily interested in the functional morphology of the internal structure of skeleton, trabecular and cortical bone, which adapts to behaviour during life.

For my doctoral research, I applied whole-joint methods to investigate systemic and ontogenetic variation in internal bone structure in humans and chimpanzees. Through ascertaining the extent of intra-individual and intra-specific variability of internal bone structure, this research assessed the relevance of internal bone structural analysis for reconstructing behaviour in fossil hominins.